Showing posts with label deep sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deep sea. Show all posts

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Siphonophore: Deep-sea super organism

Another monster discovered in the deepest and weirdest waters in the world, here is some terrific video of a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore, an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Most Bizarre Ocean Creatures, Part 1

The World Ocean, is an interconnected yet complete system that rely on its own balance and resources, covering almost 71% of the Earth's surface, leads to a better name for out planet to be called "The blue Planet". This huge amount of water contains some weired creatures discovered almost every expedition held by marine biologists, especially to the deep waters beyond the photic zone (the place that sun light can't exceed). This requires special abilities for these creatures to survive. Not to mention their strange looking.